εἰμί

eimi

Greek G1510 Verb 2,465 occurrences in 2,100 verses
εἰμί to be

εἰμί,

with various uses and significations, like the English verb to be.

I. As substantive verb.

1. Of persons and things, to be, exist: Act.17:28, Jhn.1:1, 8:58, 17:5, al; ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν (for past ptcp.), Rev.1:4, 8, 4:8, 11:17, 16:5 (see Swete, Ap., 5; M, Pr., 228); τὰ (μὴ) ὄντα, Rom.4:17, 1Co.1:28.

2. Of times, events, etc., to be, happen, take place: Mat.24:3, Mrk.14:2, 15:42, Luk.21:23, Jhn.4:6, 23, 5:10, al.

3. to be present, be in a place, have come: Mat.2:13, 15, Mrk.1:45, 5:21, 15:40, Luk.1:80, 5:29, Jhn.7:30, al.; before εἰς, Mrk.2:1; before ἐκ, (ἐξ), Mat.1:20, 21:25, Mrk.11:30, Jhn.3:31, al.

4. Impers., ἔστι, ἦν, etc.;

(a) there is (Fr. il y a), was, etc.: Mat.16:28, Luk.16:19, Jhn.3:1, 5:2, Rom.3:10, al.; with dative (of the possessor; Bl., §37, 3), Mat.16:22, Luk.1:7, Jhn.18.10, Rom.9:2, al.; ἔστιν ὅς, ὅστις (chiefly in pl), Mat.16:28, 19:2, Mrk.9:1, al.;

(b) with inf., = ἔξεστιν (which see), it is possible: Heb.9:5, 1Co.11:20, RV (but see ICC, in l.).

II. As copula uniting subject and predicate.

1. Expressing simply identity or equivalence: Mat.5:13, 14:15, Luk.1:18, 19, Jhn.1:1, 4:19, Rev.3:9, al. mult.

2. Explicative, as in parable, figure, type, etc.: Mat.13:19, 1Co.9:2, 10:4, 11:25, Gal.4:24, Rev.17:15, al.; ταῦτ᾽ ἔστιν, Mat.27:46, Mrk.7:2, Rom.7:18 al.; ὅ ἐστιν, Mrk.3:17, Col.1:24, Heb.7:2, al.; akin to this is the sacramental usage: Mat.26:26-28, Mrk.14:22, 24, Luk.22:19, 1Co.11:24 (see ICC on Mk, I Co, ll. with; DB, iii, 148 f.).

3. C. genitive: qual., etc., Mrk.5:42, Luk.3:23, 1Co.14:33, Heb.12:11, al.; part., 1Ti.1:20, 2Ti.1:15; poss., Mat.5:3, 10, Mrk.12:7, Luk.4:7; of service or partisanship, Rom.8:9, 1Co.1:12, 2Co.10:7, 2Ti.2:19.

4. C. dative (BL, §37, 3): Act.1:8, 9:15, Rom.4:12, 1Co.1:18, 2:14, Rev.21:7, al.

5. C. ptcp., as a periphrasis for the simple verb (Bl., §62, 1, 2; M, Pr., 225 ff.);

(a) with ptcp. pf. (cl.): Mat.10:30, Luk.9:32, Jhn.3:24, Act.21:35, 1Co.15:19, al;

(b) with ptcp. pr. (esp. in impf., as in Heb. and Aram.; Dalman, Words, 35 f.), Mat.7:29, Mrk.1:22, Luk.4:31, 14:1, Act.1:10, al. mult., id. for imper. (M, Pr., 180f., 182f.), with ellipsis of εἰμί, Rom.12:9, 10, Heb.13:5, al.;

(c) with ptcp. aor. (cl), Luk.23:9.

6. Seq. εἰς (cf. Heb. הָיָה לְ), a vernac. usage (M, Pr., 71): Mat.19:5, Mrk.10:8, Heb.8:10, al.

7. C. adv.: Mat.19:20, Mrk.4:26, Luk.18:11, al.

8. Ellipses;

(a) of the copula (Bl., §30, 3): Mat.8:29, 24:32, Jhn.21:22, 23, Heb.6:4, al.;

(b) of the predicate: ἐγώ εἰμί, Mat.14:27, Mrk.6:50, al.; absol. (cf. Deu.32:39; אֲנִי הוּא), Mrk.13:6, Jhn.4:26, al. (cf. ἄπ-, ἔν-, πάρ-, συμ-πάρ-, σύν-ειμι).

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Concordance 2,100 verses

  1. John 4:19 εἶ

    “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

  2. John 4:20 ἐστὶν

    Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

  3. John 4:22 ἐστίν

    You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

  4. John 4:23 ἐστιν

    But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

  5. John 4:26 εἰμι

    Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”

  6. John 4:29 ἐστιν

    “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

  7. John 4:34 ἐστιν

    Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

  8. John 4:35 ἐστινεἰσιν

    Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.

  9. John 4:37 ἐστὶνἐστὶν

    For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

  10. John 4:42 ἐστιν

    They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”

  11. John 4:46 ἦν

    So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

  12. John 5:1 ἦν

    Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  13. John 5:2 Ἔστιν

    Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.

  14. John 5:5 Ἦν

    One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

  15. John 5:9 Ἦν

    Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now this happened on the Sabbath day,

  16. John 5:10 ἐστιν

    so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”

  17. John 5:12 ἐστιν

    “Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?” they asked.

  18. John 5:13 ἐστινὄντος

    But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while the crowd was there.

  19. John 5:15 ἐστιν

    And the man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

  20. John 5:25 ἐστιν

    Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

  21. John 5:27 ἐστίν

    And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

  22. John 5:30 ἐστίν

    I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

  23. John 5:31 ἔστιν

    If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

  24. John 5:32 ἐστὶνἐστιν

    There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.

  25. John 5:35 ἦν

    John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

  26. John 5:39 εἰσιν

    You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

  27. John 5:45 ἔστιν

    Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

  28. John 6:4 Ἦν

    Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.

  29. John 6:9 Ἔστινἐστιν

    “Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”

  30. John 6:10 ἦν

    “Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.

  31. John 6:14 ἐστιν

    When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

  32. John 6:20 εἰμι

    But Jesus spoke up: “It is I; do not be afraid.”

  33. John 6:22 ἦν

    The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with His disciples, but they had gone away alone.

  34. John 6:24 ἔστιν

    So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Him.

  35. John 6:29 ἐστιν

    Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

  36. John 6:31 ἐστιν

    Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

  37. John 6:33 ἐστιν

    For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

  38. John 6:35 εἰμι

    Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

  39. John 6:39 ἐστιν

    And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.

  40. John 6:40 ἐστιν

    For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

  41. John 6:41 εἰμι

    At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

  42. John 6:42 ἐστιν

    They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”

  43. John 6:45 ἔστινἔσονται

    It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

  44. John 6:46 ὢν

    not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.

  45. John 6:48 εἰμι

    I am the bread of life.

  46. John 6:50 ἐστιν

    This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

  47. John 6:51 εἰμιἐστιν

    I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

  48. John 6:55 ἐστινἐστιν

    For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

  49. John 6:58 ἐστιν

    This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

  50. John 6:60 ἐστιν

    On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”

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